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I always assumed he was Dwayne Lawson trying to sneak back in with a subtle name change.
Damn, franklin is cooking with gas.
Running the ball seems to be on the menu for 26
Mrs MattBoard is a Penn St fan. This might be bad news for me but good news for the Hokies.
I hope you all appreciate the sacrifice I'm making for the team here.
Grunk me up with all of this news lately
Hard pass. Transfers easily, and the "I can't allow myself to be undervalued" is just screaming "They didn't pay me enough."
I'm arguing that if a team participates in a game, it's a data point, and can be used in one's perception of the team to determine whether they're included in the playoffs and what their seeding is.
Seems odd to me to only pay attention if a team wins, or if they're in the $EC.
Judas
This is the kind of upgrade VT desperately needs.
In Franklin we trust.
Have I been gone so long people are taking me seriously? Uh oh.
A QB with 70% completion percentage in a Hokie uniform? And he took Indiana to the brink with a 81.2 QBR?
This is a new era in VT football. He should be setting records. If he can keep his completion percentage within 5% of his 69% he achieved in 2025, he will topple J. Evans record at 63.5%. VT has never seen a completion percentage close to what Grunkenmeyer put up last year.
We really need to get the O-line to keep him upright, but that seems to be in the works for 2026.
Go Hokies!
EDIT: Instead of sleeping, I decided to watch some PSU condensed games. If Grunkenmeyer is in fact coming to the Hokies, we should be ecstatic. He excels at short and middle-third intermediate/deep passes. His short game is elite, he is really good at quickly getting the ball out of his hands and on target. For intermediate/deep, he is really good in the at finding soft spots in zones on crossing routes and seam routes and fitting a tight throw. With the right scheme, pass-catching TEs should flourish (Maybe its good to have a TE coach as OC?). He is also pretty accurate with a nice tight spiral, so if WR drops are a problem in 2026, it is a WR issue. Some negatives: I didn't see him attempt any out routes or WR go routes (not sure if that is scheme, WR talent issue, or what). He is not an elite runner, so don't expect much as runner. He isn't super shifty when pressured, but he is good at finding and accurately connecting with a safety valve.
And he has 3 years of eligibility (not sure how much that really matters in the portal era, but hopefully it means 3 years of 70% pass accuracy).
Grunkowski!!
GRUNK
His point was countering the low rankings for a portal class. Since class portal rankings rely somewhat on volume, pulling in just a few strategic players will result in low rankings, but doesn't necessarily mean you weren't successful in getting the pieces you needed.
He can, and looks like he is, raiding the current PSU roster. I'd argue theirs is better than ours and if he can get a sizable number, it would be great, while also limiting the scouting he'd need to do on other portal candidates.
Let's go!
I think we'll have to wait til the morning to get confirmation that it's actually happening, and I'll update my tracker after I wake up.
Spare parts.
Originally wasn't going to post a new thread, but Nakos is also saying it
BREAKING: Penn State transfer QB Ethan Grunkemeyer is expected to transfer to Virginia TechThe 6-2, 212-pound quarterback had 1,339 passing yards and 9 total touchdowns this seasonRanked as the No. 11 QB in the portal by @247Sports Story: https://t.co/S6NugeAG7F pic.twitter.com/4ZTHgSTEAx— Kolby Crawford (@kolby_crawford) January 5, 2026
That is some awesome upper level shit right there.
As another local, I can confirm that the story has been he fits all the measurables, but it doesnt translate to the live game action. Perfect Game is extremely biased to these measurables and it doesnt shock me to see him rated so high on that front.
You're looking at the portal in a vacuum, which I'd argue you can't do. The portal is one part of overall team recruiting, the other being recruiting from high school. Because our high school recruiting has been not great, we've almost been forced to go to the portal to get recruits.
But let's look at Franklin's recruiting classes (well, plus a couple years before 2018 to get an idea of what may have already been on the roster at that point). Rankings according to 247.
2016: 20
2017: 15
2018: 6
2019: 12
2020: 15
2021: 21
2022: 6
2023: 14
2024: 15
2025: 15
I'd argue that if we had those kinds of recruiting classes, we probably wouldn't have hit the portal nearly as hard. So, like I said, it may not be that he's not capable, it may just be that he was filling his roster through recruiting. But then the question is, can he make use of the portal to turn over this roster? Will he try to coach up what we do have and just continue bringing in good recruiting classes? I guess we'll see.
He was the 55th ranked baseball recruit in his class primarily for how he performed with Perfect Game. I expect his focus will shift to baseball and he possibly transfers inside the ACC for that. UNC, Louisville and Duke would be the ones I expect him to gravitate towards there.
Sorsby to Texas Tech in the Carson Beck model of follow your girlfriend. Sorsby GF received a huge NIL deal to transfer for volleyball.
This in fantastic news.